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UNITED STATES JOSUA ARON BIBERFELD,

PATENT GEEICE.

OF HAMBURG, GERMANY.

MACHINE FOR FILLING AND LINKING SAUSAGES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 715,949, dated December 16, 1902.

Application filed January 28,1902. Serial No. 91,585. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JosUA ARON BIBER- FELD, meIOl1ant, residing at 8 Bornstrasse, Hamburg, Germany, have invented some new and useful Improvements in Machines for Filling and Linking Sausages, of which the following is a full and clear description.

The present machine produces sausages of equal weight, the ends of which are corded with cord, twine, or any other proper material. The same is illustrated by the inclosed drawings.

I Figure 1 represents a view in elevation of the entire machine. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal section of the upper part of the machine by means of which the stuffingis pressed into the gut and the cording of the sausages is effected. Fig. 3 represents a horizontal plan of the machine, partly in section. Fig. 4 represents a cross-section from A to B of Fig. 2. Figs. 5 and 6 represent the cording contrivance in enlarged proportions, and Fig. 7 rep resents a part of the machine.

On the cylinder a a box I) is fastened, inside of which a disk 0 is rotating. This disk 0 has two opposite conduits d e, in which a double pistonfslides to and fro. The arrangement is such that the piston is only set at work as soon as the conduitsd e have come into the position right before the filler g. In this moment the piston is removed in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 2, and now the channel 6 can be filled with meat, or rather the proper stuffing material, while the channel 61 is emptied by the piston f. After this is done the disk 0 is turned around one hundred and eighty degrees. D uring this rotation,of which the piston f naturally takes part, the piston 7 does not change its position, but, on the contrary, its front face closely passes along the inside of the case b. It completely fills up the channel 01, thus preventing the entrance of air into the channel during the rotation of the disk 0. As soon as the disk 0 has finished the rotation of one hundred and eighty degrees 11. 6., when the front face h of the pistonfhas come into the position before the pipe gthen the piston is again removed in the direction of the arrow. The retiring piston then permits a tight filling up of the channel 01 without permitting the entrance of air, while by the front face it of the piston a discharging of the channel 6 into the nozzle'iand into the gut is caused. The middle part of the piston f is provided with an oval slitf, in which the axle f is resting, the latter being capable of being removed in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 2, by adapted means. When the disk 0 has made a turn of one hundred and eighty degrees out of its position, as illustrated in Fig. 2, the axle f is removed to the left, and the pistonfmust obey this removal of the axle. If the piston f has thus reached the position illustrated in Fig. 22' e., when the axlef is in the dotted positionthen the axle f is caused to return into its former position, Fig. 2, by means of a spring or any other proper arrangement. The removal of the pistonfat the proper time may be effected by different means. A proper contrivance is illustrated by Figs. 3 and at. The axle f is secured to the rod f and the removal of both parts f and f may be caused by the grooved disk It. The revolving of the grooved disk It is eifected by two sets of bevel-wheels 'm, m and m m secured to the shaft Z, Fig. 3.

The shaft Z receives its motion by the bevelwheels Z Z secured to the shaft Z On the lower end of the shaft Z there is keyed a screw gear-wheel Z Fig. 1, which acts against the teeth of the wheel Z The shaft 1", through any suitable connection, (not necessary to show,) drives the piston-rod Z of the piston Z The bevel wheel Z catches into the bevel-wheel 1*, Fig. 4, said bevel-wheel Z being set at work by the crank Z The last-named bevel-gear imparts'its motion to all parts of the machine.

The contrivance for the motion of the disk 0 is illustrated by Fig. 7. in rotation, then the arm p, secured to the same, is also revolving. Said arm 19 is provided with a slit in which a part ris made to slide to and fro by means of a piece of iron q, Figs. 7 and 3. The partris provided with a pin 8, Fig. 3, which catches into the groove t of the directing-disk u. The disk 0 is provided with cams o '0'. .In the position illus- (rated by Fig. 7'the part r is behind the cam o, and when now a rotation of respectively the shaft Z and the arm p is caused in the direction of the arrow then the disk 0 must follow this rotation, and, indeed, for such a long time until the pin 3 has reached the point If If the shaft Z is of the groove i. As soon as it is passing through this point t the part 1" is pulled backward behind the cam o and the disk 0 remains in rest until the pin 5 has come to the point fi-z'. 6., during half a rotation. At t the part T, which is now again removed, touches the cam r, and thus again causes half a rotation of the disk 0. During the dwell of the disk 0 the removal of the piston f takes place.

The present machine is provided with the proper contrivance for cording the sausages or the gut, the proceeding being as follows: The fillings of the channels d e are discharged one after another into the gut 5 shoved into the nozzle 2' in the aforedescribed manner. As soon as one filling is discharged into the gut a compressing or pinching of the gut takes place and at the same time a cord is wrapped around the gut. To the upper ends of each of the arms 20, which. are capable of being turned, a roll 10 is supported. Besides this roll w, each arm 20 or some of them is provided with spools 00, on which twine is wound. As soon as the disk 0 commences its half-rotation the collar-piece 0%, provided with the arms 20, also begins to revolve. The arms 20 are pivotally connected to the collarpiece 00 so that the same can be gradually pressed together, or rather that their ends can be brought near to each other, by means of the movable ring m, so that the rolls compress the gut passing between them when they approach each other. The circumference of the collar-piece m is provided with cogs, and the same receives its motion by the cog-wheel 00 If the collar-piece 00 is revolving, the arms wof course are also turned around. During the turning of the arms 20 the rolls 10 roll around the gut at the compressed spot and at the same time twine is unwound from the spools 00, thus cording the gut at the compressed point twice or thrice, according to the number of rotations of the collar-piece 05 In the beginning of the working of the machine the cords wound upon the spools 00 are first tied by hand around the place of the gut to be corded. During the whole operating of the machine a cutting of the twine does not take place. The same remains, moreover, uncut until the gut is entirely filled.

The cog-wheel 00 is secured to the shaft 3 which receives its motion by the cog-wheels g, 1 and 11 The cog-wheel 3/ catches into the inner set of teeth 3 ot' the disk 0. Therefore the shaft y and the entire cording mechanism remains in rest as long as the disk 0 is not rotating, for during this period the discharging of a new meat-filling into the gut takes place. As soon as, however, the disk 0 commences to revolve also the pinion g is rotating and sets the cording mechanism at work. The removable ring as is connected with a fork 2, which is pushed backward and forward by the disk .2, provided with a groove in such a manner that the ring 00 is removed in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 5, on which account the rolls w withdraw from each other for such a long time as the discharging of the meat-filling is lasting.

I claim 1. Inamachineforfillingsausages,thecombination of a revolving disk 0, a casing in which the same revolves, a discharge-nozzle on the said casing, means for supplying the filling material to the disk, and a piston reciprocating in the disk and of less length than the diameter of the disk and means for operating the piston and for rotating the disk, substantially as described.

2. In combination in a machine for filling and linking sausages, a casing, a disk revolving therein, a double piston with means for reciprocating the same to discharge the filling material first from one side of the disk and then from the other side, a dischargenozzle to which the disk carries the filling to be discharged into and through the same, arms to carrying rolls to for pressing the sausages and forming the links, rotary means carrying the arms and a twine-holder carried by the arms, substantially as described.

3. In combination, a casing, a revolving disk therein, means for moving the same intermittently, a piston working in the disk, a discharge-nozzle to receive the filling from the disk, arms w carrying rollers 10 for forming the links, a rotary carrier for the said arms, a gear-wheel x for driving the said rotary carrier, a cam-disk .2, means controlled thereby for controlling the opening or closing of the said arms 10, a shaft 1 carrying the gear 00 and the cam-disk .2' and means for driving the said shaft from the revolving disk, substantially as described.

4. In combination with a nozzle through which the material is forced, arms carrying rollers, a rotary support for said arms, means for holding the twine carried by said arms, and means for moving the arms carrying the rollers toward and from the axial line of the nozzle, substantially as described.

5. In combination, a rotary disk, a piston operating diametrically thereof, a nozzle to receive the material from the disk, arms movable toward and from the axial line of the nozzle, the carrying-rollers and twine-holding means, and means for operating the arms from the rotary disk, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

JOSUA ARON BIBERFELD.

\Vitnesses:

FRANZ STEHMANN, FRANZ NETsoH. 

